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Gunther Schwartz

Hi, I have done a lot of freelance projects on the side, including a clone. Let me know if you're interested, price negotiable -- I can almost certainly beat all the other candidates on pricing, I pride myself on being extremely fast and efficient.

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Hi, I have done a lot of freelance projects on the side, including a clone. Let me know if you’re interested, price negotiable – I can almost certainly beat all the other candidates on pricing, I pride myself on being extremely fast and efficient.

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Bashkir
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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Clouse Hedge
December 1, 2024 - Present
Engineered a high-throughput AI orchestration platform using Python and Flask to enable real-time multi-agent workflows for enterprise clients. Architected a mission-critical Node.js microservice layer to manage React client connections, leveraging Rust via FFI to optimize CPU-intensive data serialization tasks. Designed a robust SQL schema and query strategy for a multi-terabyte vector-relational hybrid database, reducing search latency by 65% for RAG-based applications. Authored Bash and Python automation suites for zero-trust deployment pipelines, achieving 100% compliance during tech due diligence. Mentored a team of 6 engineers on asynchronous programming and distributed system observability to sustain high-velocity shipping during a transition period.
Software Engineer — Payout Platform (Monetization Infrastructure) at Meta
November 1, 2022 - November 1, 2024
Co-owned the core payout surface area powering monetization across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Led end-to-end launch and testing of 10+ global payment products (subscriptions, fan subscriptions, bonus programs, in-stream payouts, Reels Play), turning Meta platforms into creator-economy marketplaces. Served as de-facto technical product manager: defined roadmaps, wrote technical specs, and coordinated 50–100+ cross-functional stakeholders per launch. Built and shipped a real-time transaction validation UI and a configurable rule engine (React•Node•GraphQL•Hack), reducing monthly accounting/engineering review time by 25%. Improved system reliability from 95% to 99.95% uptime via on-call dashboards, automated alerting, and chaos-engineering practices.
Lead Software Engineer at Duet Inc.
January 1, 2022 - November 1, 2022
Developed and shipped authentication and billing features for Node.js backend, supporting 10,000+ monthly transactions and increasing user retention by 15% through seamless onboarding. Managed MySQL and MongoDB databases, automating schema migrations with Python scripts, reducing deployment errors by 40%. Coordinated AWS deployments using CI/CD pipelines with Docker, cutting release cycles by 20%. Led contractor team of 5, setting timelines and conducting GitHub code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables.

Education

B.S. Data Science at University of California, San Diego
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment